UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) meets with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the United Nations headquarters in New York,the United States, March 25, 2009. [Shen Hong/Xinhua]

Brown is currently on a three-continent tour aimed at drumming up support for a coordinated international response to the global financial crisis.

He later met with UN chief Ban Ki-moon. Brown promised that leaders at the G-20 summit would take action to reform the banking system and ensure the financial institution can come to the aid of the poorest countries.

(CCTV March 26, 2009)